Category: Autonomous Vehicles

Look at this picture of 5th Avenue in New York in 1900. Look for a car. Now look at this picture from 1913. This time look for a horse! The first Model T Ford rolled off the production line; by 1930 the equestrian age was, for all intents and purposes, over.

Last year an estimated 40,100 Americans died in traffic accidents, and human error causes more than 90 percent of crashes. Motor vehicles now contribute to 75 percent of carbon monoxide pollution. And commuters in more than 100 U.S. cities now spend more than 40 hours annually stuck in traffic on average. If autonomous vehicles can